That's not too good. Honestly knowing what we know now it's a miracle things weren't much worse.
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That's not too good. Honestly knowing what we know now it's a miracle things weren't much worse.
My understanding is that he can delay the vote but not block it. So he's just making a fuss to make things more annoying for the dems.
I would assume that, at the very least, Congressional comittees could subpoena that stuff – with the Garland-led DoJ being only too happy to comply.
I'm not paying to read that, but that can't be true. There is no way Trump's people can just say no you can't access our stuff. Hopefully, this is just what they are telling Trump's crew so they leave thinking they are safe.
The filibuster stops a bill from coming to a real vote. 60 votes are required to end debate and actually vote on the bill under the current Senate rules. So in essence if the Voting Rights bill doesn't get 60, it never came up for a final vote. They'd just need to bring it to the floor again.
Garland can order whatever he wants. Those computers belong to the Government.
They're placating Trump.
They're not "the property of the Biden administration" because that's not how government property is designated lol
It's accurate in the sense that it's not Biden' PROPERTY, but as POTUS, he absolutely has the right to access that information, and broad discretion in handling it.
Not sure on that, my inclination would be to say he can't. If he could, I'm not convinced Biden would do so except maybe in the case of a self-pardon.
Once concerts get going again, as well as other halfway normal events, specifically if they require vaccination or proof of negative covid test, a whole lot more will get vaccinated as to not be left out of the fun. I think concerts will be the straw that gets the biggest % to get the vaccine.
Chuck Todd hasn't been relevant since Obama was running for president in 2008.
Pfft...Mario can't take off his red ahem..."M" cap and pretend he is now somehow different!
The thing about OLC opinions is that they are opinions written by the executive branch, for the executive branch, and have no legal weight until they are tested in court. The Supreme Court scoffed at the OLC memo when they were weighing the subpoenas for Trump's taxes, and said as much in their opinion in the Trump v Vance ruling.
It won't even make it that far, because Garland can just say "lol no" the moment he's sworn in, and anyone who opposed his direct orders would have to resign, as we saw with Barr.
It won't even make it that far, because Garland can just say "lol no" the moment he's sworn in, and anyone who opposed his direct orders would have to resign, as we saw with Barr.
Surprised it took this long tbh. Absolutely was a repeat of Karl Rove going mad after Obama won Ohio way back when. They even dragged the decision staff out again to yell at them too.
Yes it does. But since I also wanted to post something, I decided to kill two birds with one pebble.
More than an argument. That's statistically accurate based on the polling, isn't it?
Absolutely wild that Fox's decision desk was "under fire" for being the first to make an accurate projection.
Yeah, OANN and Newsmax is pushing them to more craziness.
They also announced more pundit programming in the early morning to replace news.
It's a bit hyperbolic, but not entirely unfair.
He promised 100 million doses in 100 days. If he doesn't deliver, that's not a great start to his administration.
Seems completely consistent with the network's standards to me.
Yeah, we're currently averaging 776,901 doses a day, so if that can't be brought up to an average of 1 million/day, that's a pretty big failure. If anything, I think 100 million is undershooting (but probably better to overdeliver).
@Acosta
VP office makes it official. Pence not scheduled to attend Trump send off at JBA Wednesday.
3:46 PM · Jan 19, 2021
So instead of letting Newsmax and OAN have the ever shrinking Trump cult audience, they are doubling down on bullshit to get them back at the cost of the last few legitimate news people left on staff. These Fox network executives are just as stupid as the audience they pander to.
Shame. Stirewalt is a pretty wry guy and not a bonkers partisan.
Time is a flat circle folks. Fox coming into conflict with its more accurate polling/election desk is nothing new. If they take an axe to whatever arm deals with their polls or decision desk, seems like a shame as that's somehow stayed consistent despite Fox's effort to brand everything as partisan as possible.
It's sort of astonishing how consequential that call remains--that decision desk making that call instantly deflated Trump's planned victory speech. We'll never really know how much impact that ultimately had, given how eager people were to buy into the stolen election narrative anyway, but all else aside at least that guy blew up his job over a major decision that was ultimately an accurate call.
Funny how in both instances I saw plenty of even well-meaning liberals go "well they still shouldn't have called it that early" despite the fact that both times they were proven unequivocally correct. It's not like it was a lucky guess either time, and in this case the early Arizona call saved us from a whole mess of bullshit that would have come from Trump getting to declare victory early.
Fox absolutely saved us a whole lot of pain that night and the decision desk coming out to tell everyone to pound sand about their call made it all the more meaningful. Standing by the call despite reports that Trump himself was calling Fox to overturn it made headlines all night long.
Trump essentially ordered for his family to be killed. I would imagine even that would make Pence angry when Mother is threatened.
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